US-born musician Geoff Geer is a songwriter, composer, music theorist, performer, and educator (L2 Lead, Southwark College, 2025), with 30+ years' experience and 70+ recordings across experimental, contemporary classical, electroacoustic, rock, and hybrid forms.
He holds a PhD from Oxford Brookes University (2023) on 20th-century musique concrète and instrumental practice (viva with Howard Skempton). His work ranked in Academia's top 2-4% of researchers (2023-2026).
A finalist in the UK Songwriting Contest (Fields, 2007) with 14 additional semi-final placements, Geer was also a finalist on Rollin' Good Times (Singapore TV, 1995). His work has featured on Barron's Wordfest!, Singapore radio ("The Real Sky," 1993), and a 2014 Wembley radio broadcast of "Calm".
His practice bridges composition, songwriting, and production, exploring how harmony, texture, and studio processes shape narrative and affect. He develops hybrid works for instruments and acousmatic media, including string quartet and tape projects.
Collaborators include Iain McKinna (Offbeat Scotland), Lawrie MacMillan (Stiltskin), Tony Looby (The Skatalites and Friends), Jonty Harrison, Niall Muir (Mouth Music), Andrew Nicholls (Sade), the Kalamandir Orchestra, Heather Burnett-Rose (Mike Oldfield), Paul McKinna, Mihalis Kalkanis, Cecilia Garcia (Argentina National Orchestra), Ana Topalovic (Sony), Marko Otmacic (Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra), the Anglia Chamber Choir, Oxford Improvisers, Steve Moore, Callanish, The Dagmars, Corey Nonis (Heritage), Nick White, Agung Mountain, Auld Reekie Rocks, Know, and artists Nele Zirnite, Alissar McCreary, Blanca Rodriguez Beltran, and Katie Taylor.
He studied with Chandrakant Kapileshwari of the Kirana gharana lineage, Paul Whitty (student of Michael Finnissy), Ray Lee, Paul Dibley, Patrick Farmer (student of Michael Pisaro), Kevin Flanagan (Led Zeppelin, Roger Waters, arranger Jools Holland Show), Paul Rhys, John Banks (Club Inégales with Peter Wiegold), Alexandra Wilson, Julio d'Escrivan, Phil Brooke, Neil Murphy, Alex Abisheganaden, Robert Luse, Abigail Aronson (Berklee), and Steve Wark (Berklee).
His research advances instrumental-electroacoustic integration, focusing on pitch, timbre, and perception. This includes iTet for Sampled Piano (1200-TET), Logarithmic Dynamic Tonality, Ekphrastic Translation, the SIR-5 model, and compositional methods integrating linguistic syntax into musical structure.